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A member of Premier Doug Ford’s caucus is criticizing the government’s decisions to cancel a planned French-language university and scrap the office of the French-language services commissioner. Amanda Simard, who represents the mainly French-speaking riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, calls the moves…

It is the first official snow day of the year. School bus and special vehicle transportation has been cancelled in all counties served by the: Catholic District School Board and the Upper Canada District School Board. All schools remain open.…

With rotating strikes by unionized workers in its fourth week, Canada Post is suspending delivery time guarantees. Canadian Union of Postal Workers members walked off the job early yesterday in Toronto and at the Canada Post distribution centre in nearby…

Bombardier is cutting about five-thousand jobs across the organization over the next 12 to 18 months as part of a new restructuring plan. The company also announced the sale of what it called a number of non-core assets. Bombardier has…

A new round of rotating strikes has been launched by Canada Post workers in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the latest Ontario operations targeted for job actions are in Toronto’s east end, as…

The Trudeau government wants to give federally regulated workers more paid personal-leave days. The proposal arrives as the P-C government of Ontario moves to cut workers’ entitlements. Federal budget legislation, if passed, would let workers take up to five days…

A special weather statement is in effect for snow expected sometime between late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. According to Environmental Canada a low pressure system approaching from the south will bring some snow into portions of Central…

The federal labour minister wants Canada Post and its biggest union to continue bargaining with the help of a third party after postal workers across the country voted in favour of strike action. Members of the Canadian Union of Postal…